On the call today with Torsten and the others we seemed to be in general agreement that the BoK could be made more extensible by adding a few more (or different) cross-cutting considerations. For example:

Concepts
Best practices
Regulations
Standards and Protocols

Could become

Governance and Management
Use cases
Risks, vulnerabilities, and threats
Regulations
Standards and Protocols
Future considerations

Rationale

Cognitively it is good to have between 4 and 7 items on a graphical list like that
Best practices (aka good practices) could be added as a 7th or just assumed to be included pervasively in the 4 major functions and the cross-cutting considerations alike
Use cases (aka user stories) can capture a lot of things from the mainstream use cases to industry sector, geographic differences, edge cases. We could also include the critical topic of business enablers (or business opportunities) in use cases.
Governance and Management are crucial and should not be omitted, they can also capture many models, methodologies and concepts including how do you measure ROI on identity
Future considerations is a handy category for all the things you want to keep track of that could become important, like Blockchain identity, etc. We had that as part of the Burton/ Gartner reference architecture. Having it as a well-maintained category would help the BoK be future-proof and evolve.

For me, this now would approach "comprehensive".

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Andrew Hughes <andrewhughes3000@gmail.com> wrote:

My view is that once a sub-domain can be accurately described in a reasonably stable way then it qualifies for inclusion in the BoK. We can have unfilled categories in the Taxonomy - no issue there with creating forward-looking branches because it's easy to adjust as needed, up until the point we fill in the BoK content (after that it's hard to change the taxonomy)

So: if you are the type to hang out at "Identity on the blockchain" kinds of events you might see taxonomy branches about those topics but no actual BoK content.

Check back in a few years, once things have been tried out more and there's a growing consensus (get it? ha!) on a few potentially viable paths forward and the writers can start finding and curating the content for the BoK.

The BoK is the stuff an ID Pro should know (loosely body of knowledge) and also the stuff an ID Pro should know about (loosely taxonomy).

Finding the balance will be an ongoing challenge - but if content writers struggle to compose a reasonably sane description for a BoK section then we can suspect that it's still too early.

andrew.

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Dan Blum <dan.blum@security-architect.com> wrote:
An interesting question is whether the BoK is to document the digital identity status quo, or to also move our shared understanding into relatively less-charted levels. For example, Ian Glazer proposed an innovative threat model, and a maturity model, that I haven't seen elsewhere.

I summarize and link to the Changing Face/Fate of Identity talk from Ian in this post. You'll note reference to Ian's thinking that transparency and accountability controls must be added to preventative IAM controls. Note my thoughts there that applying these and other advanced controls will be challenging in the post-GDPR era - but perhaps essential for businesses to retain the ability to go-to-market with customers in digital.

In short I believe that we may be earlier in the evolution of digital identity architecture than most think, and would be an advocate for a forward-looking BoK...

Looking forward to today's discussion!

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Megan Cannon <megan@kantarainitiative.org> wrote:

Greetings,

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